Deering Alaska Map

About Deering, Alaska

Deering is a locality in Northwest Arctic, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 182. The population density is 14.0 people per km². Deering is located at 66.0695°N, 162.7646°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Nome) timezone. Deering is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99736.

Deering occupies a vast, quiet expanse of inland tundra where the earth stretches toward a horizon defined by the distant, rugged silhouette of Mount Foster. It lies 435.1 miles west-northwest of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 288°T), and is situated 57.0 miles south of Kotzebue. The Inmachuk River carves a serpentine path through the permafrost, its waters reflecting the pale, shifting light of a subarctic sky that seems to press down with an immense, unyielding weight. To the east, the landscape transitions into the wild, sweeping reaches of the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, a terrain where the wind carries the scent of lichen and cold stone. Twelve miles out, the surface of Sullivan Lake remains a solitary, glassy eye in the middle of the scrub, mirroring the flight of ravens that cross the silence of the plains.

Deering exists as a place of deliberate endurance, where the rhythm of the year is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the cycle of the land. Life in Deering is shaped by a history of resilience, with the local economy rooted in the traditional practices that have sustained families across generations in this harsh, interior environment. The people move with the steady, measured pace of those who understand the scale of the wilderness, finding beauty in the way the twilight deepens the color of the moss and the tundra grasses to a bruised, velvet purple. Here, the modern world arrives in the hum of a bush plane, a fleeting sound that serves only to emphasize the profound, enduring stillness of the interior.

About This Deering Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Deering, Alaska. Coordinates: 66.069488, -162.764572. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Deering includes the ZIP code (99736), telephone area code (907), county seat of Northwest Arctic, and school district assignment (Northwest Arctic Borough School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.